I can’t get the Activity Log analysis to work on some of my servers. The error message is : no activity data etc.Of course, activity logging IS enabled, and it works ok on other servers.
Also, the Log analysis tool fails. It stops after some time with the message “Network timeout”.
Has anybody have experience with these analysis tools in the administrator, and more importantly, how I can get them to work ?
cheers,
Tom
Subject: Activity Log analysis / Log analysis fails
I can answer the log analysis time-out question. In R6 the log analysis is done not only in the background but on the server where you are searching the log. So instead of doing a NSFDbOpen transaction and many note open transactions to the server, we do one LogSearch transaction from a background thread and wait for the search to finish.When the search finishes we send a result back to the client and close the transaction. The admin client then opens the results on the server. These results are saved in the ‘Log Analysis Results’ view of log.nsf. We had to give the transaction a time-out in case something happened to the server. After testing what the average search time would be, we set up a time out of approximately 20 minutes. Now this just times out the net transaction.
The good thing is that the search will complete on the server side. So you can go directly to the ‘Log Analysis View’ and see your results, using the admin client. If your search results are not there, it might mean that the search is not done, so you should check later.
We have made some performance changes to the search in 6.0.2. You should still limit your searches to certain time ranges if you can.
Subject: RE: Activity Log analysis / Log analysis fails
I have a log.nsf that replicates over all my servers (well, 1 server holds all log data from all my servers for a month, the other only hold it for a few days). I think the time-out is related to that - I can’t do an Activity Log analysis on the combined data.Being a server task, has it got troubles processing data from OTHER servers ?
I’ve split my log files again, and the timeout is gone. The activity log analyses still doesn’t work, but that may be due to the fact I still have the other servers’ data in that log file.
thanks,
Tom